EMPIRE'S PRAYER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 7

EMPIRE'S PRAYER.

• SPECIAL SERVICES. IN AUCKLAND CHURCHES. '• CALL TO ALL CITIZENS. In every church throughout the Empire s to-morrow Britishers will pay further L| tributes and respects to the memory of e the late King. Hearts will be in London, where Britishers nearer home will be £ filing in slow-moving procession past the body of the King lying in state in j historic Westminster Hall. . A call to all citizens to take part in to-morrow's special services has been e issued by representative leaders of the s Churches. It reads as follows: — S "In view of the fact that there will i. be no official memorial service 011 Tuesclay, at the express wish of His Majesty the King, and that His Majesty's! ? Government has suggested special ser-' e vices be held in all the churches throughs out the Empire on Sunday next, we call upon all citizens to attend divine service _ in their own churches as an act of memorial and thanksgiving for the life and reign of his late Majesty King George the Fifth. — (Signed) A. W. Auckland; T. N. Cuttle, moderator, Auckland Presbytery; E. D. Patchett, chairman, Methodist Church; Jas. A. Thomson, president, Council of Christian Congregations; Alexander Hodge, president, Ministers' Association." The service at St. Mary's Cathedral to-morrow morning will be broadcast. Archbishop Averill will preach, and detachments from the New Zealand Division of the Roj'al Navy, the military forces and the Royal New Zealand Air Force will take part. The Mayor, Mr. Ernest Davis, and members of the City Council are also expected to be present. More than one hundred officers and ratings will represent H.M.S. Dunedin, and the Air Force detachment will number about sixteen. Catholic Services, i A Solemn Mass of Intercession will : be sung in St. Patrick's Cathedral toL morrow at 11 a.m., and 011 Tuesday at , 10 a.m., his Lordship Bishop Liston pre--1 siding and preaching on each occasion, i Aii hour of intercessory prayer will take place in the cathedral to-morrow even- ! ing at 7. Bishop Liston has issued the following , circular to the Catholic clergy and laity . of the diocese of Auckland to be read to-morrow: — "It has pleased Almighty God, the supreme Ruler of men and nations, to call to Himself the Sovereign of a worldwide people. Life's work is over, the burden of vast responsibilities laid down, and his soul has returned to its Maker to give an account, as all alike must do, of the fulfilment of tremendous duties. In this hour of grief, in which we Catholics are united with our fellowcitizens, such are our first and abiding thoughts. "We now request your prayers that God in His mercy may give consolation to the members of the King's family in their intimate personal sorrow, and watch over our peoples in these days of universal grief. "We ordain that during the coming week the prayer, 'Pro quacumque tribulatione' (for time of sorrow), be added in Holy Mass, and that the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus be recited after Mass. "We also ordain that 011 Sunday evening in every parish church the Blessed Sacrament be exposed for one hour, dur-< ing which priests and the faithful will pray for the nation in sorrow and for the guidance of the new King. The Litany of the Saints, the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus, the Rosary and private prayers may fittingly be recited before Benediction. "In order that the faithful may come together in the country's mourning 011 the occasion of the funeral of the late : King, and offer up to God their fervent supplications, we ordain that on that day a Mass, 'Pro quacumque necessitate,' be offered in every parish church. At the end of the Mass the psalm Miserere is to be said or sung in Latin or English. "The clergy in clioir dress are requested to be present at the Solemn Mass in the cathedral that day, and I am confident that the laity will also assist in large numbers." In Other Churches. Other Churches throughout Auckland will hold memorial At St. Matthew's the Veil. Archdeacon Maclead a memorial service in the morning, and the Rev. G. E. Moreton will preach at Thanksgiving in the evening. The Rev. Jasper Calder will conduct the special evening service at the Epiphany Church. Services of memorial and thanksgiving will be conducted in the morning and evening at St. Andrew's Pi'esbyterian Church by the Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes, and the Rev. W. Bower Black will preach at St. David's. At St. James' several Scottish societies will take part in a memorial service, at which the preacher will be the Rev. R. Ferguson Fish. The Rev. A. H. to-morrow evening, and the Rev. A. C. Nelson a broadcast service at the Beresford Street Congregational Church. Several Churches will also hold services on Tuesday. \ NOTICE TO R.S.A. MEMBERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ' WELLINGTON, Friday. ■ The president of the New Zealand < Returned Soldiers' Association, the Hon. 1 W. Perry, M.L.C., to-night issued the following notice to returned soldiers . throughout the Dominion: "On Sunday, ] January 26, all returned soldiers are re- 1 quested to attend the various church ] services to be held by their respective i denominations in memory of his late ( Majesty King George V., wearing medals

and decorations, and, as far as is practicable, goina as 011 parade."